Amazon to acquire Goodreads: [link]
How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious.
Wash ,'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Tom Scola - Mar 28, 2013 11:18:06 am PDT #20568 of 28365
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
megan walker - Mar 28, 2013 11:19:44 am PDT #20569 of 28365
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
That makes me very sad. I think I preferred when they were fighting.
Amy - Mar 28, 2013 11:58:37 am PDT #20570 of 28365
Because books.
Better than Facebook? I don't know. I don't want Amazon to acquire everything, for one. And I can foresee every time I buy a book, an auto-post to my Goodreads account or something, and I don't like that. They could even do it for wish list items, I guess.
megan walker - Mar 28, 2013 1:59:03 pm PDT #20571 of 28365
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I don't want to link my FB and Goodreads accts either. I don't even "like" anything on FB. I hate that the "recommended" way to log in to places like Hulu is now via FB. Ugh.
erikaj - Mar 28, 2013 2:05:17 pm PDT #20572 of 28365
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod. to the thousandth power. Everybody doesn't need to know my everything.
sj - Mar 28, 2013 2:07:33 pm PDT #20573 of 28365
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
My accounts are already linked, although sometimes I wish they were not. I really don't need to know when a relative reads 50 Shades of Grey.
I have the new Mercy Thompson book from the library! Just in time for a weekend away.
Kate P. - Mar 28, 2013 5:39:09 pm PDT #20574 of 28365
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I don't want to link my FB and Goodreads accts either. I don't even "like" anything on FB. I hate that the "recommended" way to log in to places like Hulu is now via FB. Ugh.
Co-signed! I realize this is probably a losing battle, but I really don't want every other site on the internet to be linked to my FB account or to know what I post about myself there.
Strix - Mar 29, 2013 6:14:27 am PDT #20575 of 28365
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I have the new Mercy Thompson book from the library!
I read it! It is good!
I also read the new Anne Bishop, which I also liked.
Visiting family = satisfying new book jones, thanks to my sister and mine's overlapping tastes. Ahh...
le nubian - Mar 29, 2013 9:25:56 am PDT #20576 of 28365
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I'm with you all. I have a dummy FB acct that I use to register for sites if I need to. So far, I have only used it with one site that would not respond to customer support email messages.
hippocampus - Apr 01, 2013 3:19:36 am PDT #20577 of 28365
not your mom's socks.
Fans of Steven Brust and Scott Lynch may want to wander over to Cooking the Books. While done purely for fun, Lynch's "Fate of Beloved Characters" recipe may resonate particularly.